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Chipa ready

Chipa

A quick and easy recipe for making Chipa (Cheese Bread)
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Resting Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Course Appetizer, Snack
Cuisine Latin American
Servings 30 Balls

Equipment

  • Oven

Ingredients
  

  • 500 gr Tapioca Flour You’ll probably find this in some nature stores
  • 250 gr Cheddar Cheese Grated
  • 150 gr Parmesan Cheese Grated
  • 100 ml Milk
  • 10 gr Baking Powder
  • 3 units Eggs
  • 150 gr Butter In room temperature
  • 1 tbsp Salt

Instructions
 

  • Prepare all your ingredients
    Chipa ingredients
  • Mix the flour with the cheeses and the salt in a large container
    Mix the cheeses with the Tapioca flour
  • In a separate bowl, mix the milk, eggs and baking powder.
    Mix the liquids
  • Cut the butter into small cubes and add it to the flour mix.
    Add butter to the Tapioca mix
  • Mix everything together until its almost unified.
  • Make a hole in the center of the flour mix and add the milk mix into it.
    Add the liquids to the Tapioca mix
  • With your hands, mix the whole thing until you get a solid mixture. You should see chunks of cheese in the mixture.
    Mix all together and form a ball
  • Wrap it in plastic wrap and let it rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
    Wrap the ball in nylon
  • Take it from the refrigerator and make small balls out of the mixture, the size of a two-bites ball (a bit smaller than a ping-pong ball).
    Make small balls from the dough
  • You can keep some of the balls in the freezer for 1-2 months and they’ll taste as if you just made them.
    The ones you do want to cook now will go to the freezer for about 5 minutes, this way they’ll get a crunchy taste.
    You can freeze the small balls
  • In the meanwhile start your oven at 250 degrees. Use some baking paper so the balls don’t stick and put them into the oven.
  • After 10-15 minutes they should look like in the picture.
    Eat while it’s hot!
    Chipa ready

Notes

In the video she uses different kinds of cheese instead of the Cheddar cheese, I couldn’t find them where I live, but the taste is still very good, so Cheddar cheese it is.
Keyword chipa, picada